I wanted to install a software through pacman but when I run the command it shows me the following error:
How can I fix my pacman? is it broken or what?
pacman commands are different from apt and dnf commands.
Read this for more details:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Rosetta
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use simply
yay xclip (without sudo)
and you will be able to install the package
tip: use pacseek
man pacman
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Yep, already did that… Haven’t installed packages for a while so forgot how pacman worked 
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sudo pacman -S “package name”
or
yay “package name”
Both work. I get confused sometimes myself.
staring blankly into the screen on my prime partners Fedora laptop using yay
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